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Erdrique’s Next Life-Rogue Thief Acrobat

Well, Erdrique should be wrapping up his monk life within the next week which means it is time to discuss his next heroic life. In this iteration, I plan on taking Erdrique through a rogue life. I want to try out a Thief Acrobat build. I haven’t played that type of rogue before and I’m looking forward to swinging a quarterstaff around. My main focus is to do as much damage as I can with my quarterstaff, primarily using dexterity to hit and to damage. I also want to be as “skillful” as possible, maxing out my disable device, open lock, use magical device, spot, and search as much as possible. I also want to be as stealthy as possible. So here is my thoughts:

**Updated 3/15/2015: Thanks for all comments everybody :). I decided to take two points out of my Charisma and drop it from 10 to 8 and move up my Strength from 10 to 12. This allowed me to take Power Attack and the other combat based feats. I think this will be better as I was able to take Power Attack, Cleave, Two Handed Fighting, Improved Two Handed Fighting, and Improved Critical: Bludgeoning. My skills went down some but they should still be high enough to do what I need them to do.**

+1 Tome of Strength used at level 2
+1 Tome of Dexterity used at level 2
+1 Tome of Constitution used at level 2
+1 Tome of Intelligence used at level 2
+1 Tome of Wisdom used at level 2
+1 Tome of Charisma used at level 2
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 6
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 6
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 6
+2 Tome of Intelligence used at level 6
+2 Tome of Wisdom used at level 6
+2 Tome of Charisma used at level 6
+3 Tome of Strength used at level 10
+3 Tome of Dexterity used at level 10
+3 Tome of Constitution used at level 10
+3 Tome of Intelligence used at level 10
+3 Tome of Wisdom used at level 10
+3 Tome of Charisma used at level 10
+4 Tome of Strength used at level 14
+4 Tome of Dexterity used at level 14
+4 Tome of Constitution used at level 14
+4 Tome of Intelligence used at level 14
+4 Tome of Wisdom used at level 14
+4 Tome of Charisma used at level 14
+5 Tome of Strength used at level 18
+5 Tome of Dexterity used at level 18
+5 Tome of Constitution used at level 18
+5 Tome of Intelligence used at level 18
+5 Tome of Wisdom used at level 18
+5 Tome of Charisma used at level 18

Erdrique running some challenges before he takes the plunge as a rogue.

Of course all of this will be likely to change once the new changes are made to the Thief Acrobat, but then again I’ll come across that bridge when it occurs. In either case, this will be an interesting life. I expect to be running Erdrique as a rogue by next weekend :). Thanks for reading everybody and happy hunting!!

I’ll echo the other comments, there is no need for the skill focus feats (or nimble fingers and stealthy). With decent gear, decent stats, and some enhancement points spent in human or mechanic (or both) you’ll easily exceed the benefit provided by the feats, and free up most of your feat slots for combat feats such as IC: Bludgeon, the THF line etc.

To be honest, I’d be inclined to take a lot fewer points in the thief-acrobat tree (73 feels almost excessive to me), and instead put some into human (for damage boost, Hamp and perhaps some skill increases), mechanic (for skill boost, and skill increases) and perhaps Harper (for melee power and an increase enhancement bonus on your stick).

I generally like to “maximize” out a prestige line, as long as I feel it fits my character. Sometimes I don’t do that, but it is very rarely. Thanks for thoughts, I’m definitely going to change up the feats as you are third person who mentioned the exact same thing :).